That's good. Mountaintop speech. What do you most remember during that
speech and what was going on that night?

WILLIAM LUCY:

The, the mountaintop speech, ah, took place on an evening, I guess that
you could say was perfect for the kind of speech that it was. It was,
ah, an inspiring speech, one that Dr. King, ah, had really given what
appeared to be a good deal of thought to. Ah, it told about his personal
experiences, both high points and low points. Ah, it wove into it a
message that the strikers were entitled to continue their struggle, and
certainly entitled to a broad base of support, ah, that they had built
across the city. Ah, he then, you know, went on to, to, to talk about
the vision, ah, that he saw both for them and for himself. Ah, and it
was one of the most dramatic speeches I've ever heard. And there was
not, ah, down, it was not negative, it was really very, very high. Ah,
when it ended, ah, I mean, the, the, the entire church at Mason Temple
just went, went wild with excitement. I mean he had touched a chord, ah,
that was, that was so deeply rooted in all of the people, ah, it went
far beyond the strikers, ah, ah, to community people, and he had shared
with them his, his view of not only himself but his role in, ah, in
society.